Dryden's Final Poetic Mode: The Fables

by Cedric Reverand, John Dryden, Cedric D. Reverand II

Two months before he died, Dryden published a collection of verse translations and original poetry, Fables Ancient and Modern, the work for which he was most admired throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Cedric Reverand argues that Fables, which has for the most part escaped modern scrutiny, embodies a purposeful, subversive strategy, and constitutes a new poetic mode that emerged when the laureate, public spokesman...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812281217
• ISBN13: 9780812281217
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary